violence-n-guns

“But I think this film is not anti-gun, it’s anti-gun vi­o­lence.”
—Katie Couric, a few months ago, talk­ing about her doc­u­men­tary

I pret­ty much have no opin­ion on gun con­trol, okay.

I’ve nev­er had a gun, I don’t want a gun, I don’t even take self-de­fense class­es or car­ry mace or any of those things a cis­woman is “sup­posed” to do for her safe­ty. Ob­vi­ous­ly, Amer­i­ca is WAY too lax on their gun poli­cies, but that is as deep as I get.

But let’s not pre­tend a gun has any pur­pose oth­er than vi­o­lence.

Whether you use your gun to shoot a teacher that flunked you, shoot some­one try­ing to rape you, or shoot an an­i­mal, it’s vi­o­lence. We just have cul­tur­al rules around who can be a vic­tim of vi­o­lence, and in those rules, an­i­mals and crim­i­nals (es­pe­cial­ly those com­ing for you) can­not.

Ba­si­cal­ly it was just the dumb­est clar­i­fi­ca­tion I ever heard in my life. That’s all.
 

—mel­ony ppenosyne

Flom­mist Mel­ony Ppenosyne is a writer and weird artist type. In the last year alone, she’s trav­eled to Vir­ginia as a com­pet­ing poet, co-writ­ten a play on men­tal ill­ness that is present­ly be­ing pro­duced, and craft­ed a pub­lished es­say check­ing the priv­i­lege and scope of art gal­leries. Copy­right © 2016 Mel­ony Ppenosyne. Pic­tured: Old woman shoots MP40 ma­chine gun.

MOR D’ARTÍCULOS  MOR FLOMM !

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